Shocking moment critically ill baby is resuscitated on the dockside as six children and four adults are hospitalised with hypothermia after being rescued from migrant boat off Gran Canaria Spanish authorities rescue 52 African migrants from water south of Gran Canaria Ten people were rushed to hospital, including one child in a critical condition Five … Read more
Sunshine? Plenty. Average daily high temperatures are in the 20Cs throughout winter. Flight time? Four hours and 30 minutes — half the journey to Florida (and, anyway, you can’t go there due to travel restrictions). Are we welcome? Yes! The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has just made the Canaries a ‘travel corridor’. So there’s … Read more
All-inclusive holidays often come with something of a health warning. ‘It’s like a cruise,’ some say. ‘You are caught up with the same people every day and barely see anything of where you are.’ And it is true. It can be difficult to tear the kids away from the bottomless ice-cream bar and indeed the … Read more
Our sandstorm hell: Passengers in Gran Canaria tweet plea to be flown back to the UK by Tui after being ‘abandoned’ for four days following Saharan storm flight cancellations Greg Horsman had been due to fly back to Manchester on Saturday evening But his flight from Gran Canaria was cancelled due to the Saharan sandstorm … Read more